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| Formations in Glade Cave | The same, lit by Bernie | Pigs in the muddy lake room | Stonehenge -- muddy lake room | Formations, looking back from muddy lake room |
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| More of the same | Jerry modeling | Jeff modeling | My turn | |
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| The group - Me, Jeff, Sean, Bernie, Mary, Jerry and John R. | Mary, Jerry and I decorated Sean and Bernie's truck while waiting for them | Natural Chimneys, where we camped this weekend. Covered in teenage college kids | After something like 3 hours, Sean (who claims to be a fire killer) got our fire going when no one else could | View from Natural Chimneys Sunday morning |
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| A fly, too cold to escape the camera | Natural Chimneys -- too early for college kids to be out and about | Fountain Cave, near the entrance | Formations in Fountain, lit by John | A wall of flowstone lit by a couple volunteers |
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| Rimstone pool - only the most agile can avoid falling in (I think that was none of us) | roots in the breakdown room on a high lead | A super tight squeeze leads to these formations. Bernie might kill me if I tell you all she got stuck on the way out, so I'll keep it quiet. | Jeff, Bernie and I all made it inside. Sean's shoulders got stuck and John didn't attempt the horrible squeeze. | crystals in the small room |
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| Jeff outside of Jefferson Cave | Entrance to Crozet Tunnel | Ehren, Bernie, Sean and Jeff lighting up the inside of the tunnel in this blurry shot | We took our chances and kept going | Looking back toward the entrance |
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| This sign didn't deter us either | Some of the trash inside the tunnel. No idea whether it washes in or was left behind when it became no longer a railroad. | Giant frog on near the tunnel exit... he was larger than a spread hand | His little froggy friend | Salamander... I heard there was a baby too, though I didn't see it. |
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| A little waterfall turned the wall fun colors as it rusted everything around it. | Back home again around sundown | |||